William Luther Pierce (11 September 1933–23 July 2002) was an associate of the American Nazi Party (ANP), founder of the white supremacist, National Alliance and one of the most prominent ideologues of the white nationalist movement. Educated as a physicist, he rose to prominence in the white separatist movement following the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, the original founder of the ANP. [1] He gained fame and notoriety as the author of The Turner Diaries, which he wrote under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald ...

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After earning his Ph.D., he soon lost interest in physics and joined various white nationalist groups, forming his own group, the National Alliance, in 1974. Pierce came to public attention following the Oklahoma City bombing. The perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, was alleged to have been influenced by The Turner Diaries (1978), a novel written by Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. The book is a graphically violent depiction of a future race war in the United States as told through the perspective of Earl Turner, an active membe ...

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Pierce adopted Cosmotheism as his religion in 1978. In effect it is a form of panentheism, a belief that God is the animating force within the universe. Moreover, Pierce's salutation of the "life principle" adumbrates the Christian Logos, his professed agnosticism notwithstanding. Cosmotheism asserts that "all is within God and God is within all." It considers the nature of reality and of existence to be mutable and destined to co-evolve towards a complete "universal consciousness," or godhood. Cosmos means an orderly an ...

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The National Alliance, which he founded, was to be the political vanguard and the spiritual priesthood of this program, which was designed ultimately to bring about a "white racial redemption". His Cosmotheist Community Church, which was to be the next step of this plan, was set up in the mid-1970s, alongside Pierce's other political projects - the National Alliance, National Vanguard Books, and the weekly broadcast American Dissident Voices - all from his ...

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Pierce spent his final years in relative seclusion in West Virginia, where he hosted a weekly radio show, American Dissident Voices and oversaw his publishing and record companies (Resistance Records) devoted to the promotion of his white nationalist political ideology and Cosmotheist religion. He died on July 23, 2002. After his death, the National Alliance split apart into two competing factions due to infighting and bitter leadership disputes. One group formed the National Vanguard, w ...

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William Luther Pierce, William Luther Pierce - Background and education, William Luther Pierce - The Turner Diaries, William Luther Pierce - Cosmotheism, William Luther Pierce - National Alliance, William Luther Pierce - Final years, William Luther Pierce - Published works

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